Turn 95, 670 BC

[FrustratedPoet]

Could someone post a log of the chat?

[Arrian]

Oh ****.

What the hell happened?

-Arrian

[Harovan]

FP: I don't have a log, I was already at work during the chat and could follow only sporadically.

Arrian: Nothing yet, but Vox seems stronger than we thought. 2 of us (Aeson and me) switched our wonder vote from Sun Tzu's to the Lighthouse, in order to have Hurricane free for unit production. We gonna need it.

[Harovan]

Vox landed 2 immortals on the top of the coastal mountains (we should think of a name for them). They'll approach Hurricane and would arrive in 4 turns. I suggested to intercept them in the middle, because south of it the mountain range gets wider (2 tiles) and it's harder to block/deflect them. But this would have meant to move this turn.

[FrustratedPoet]

Do we know how many Spears are part of those two Immortal stacks near Arashi?

Sorry, I woudl check myself, but I can't open the save up for several hours.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
Vox landed 2 immortals on the top of the coastal mountains (we should think of a name for them). They'll approach Hurricane and would arrive in 4 turns. I suggested to intercept them in the middle, because south of it the mountain range gets wider (2 tiles) and it's harder to block/deflect them. But this would have meant to move this turn.

There's only 2 of them, though. Hurricane's production should make it easy to get a few Pikes there by the time they arrive, no?

Sure intercepting them would have been better, but we can still deal with them, can't we?

/me curses that fact that he can't look in the save right now.

[Harovan]

Neither can I.

[Harovan]

Here's the current shot as discussion base.

[Arrian]

SR,

Then yeah, we need to move this turn. Intercept ASAP.

I guess I was confused about something... would the Great Library have taken more turns to build? If we were 1 turn from the Pyramids, then we were 1 turn from the GL, right? So the Lighthouse was built at a 100 shield loss, right?

That's fine, the team clearly preferred the Lighthouse, it's just that I thought that both GLs would have freed Hurricane up for unit production immediately, not just the Lighthouse. Am I wrong?

Ok, so we have a landing on the East coast, and a stack coming in from the north...

Can we get some screenies posted in our forum here when someone gets a chance? EDIT: nice crosspost!

-Arrian

[Harovan]

The 2 immortals should have been intercepted, before the mountain strip gets 2 tiles wide (which would mean we need twice as much units to block them)

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Arrian
Then yeah, we need to move this turn. Intercept ASAP.

The turn is already played, and we missed on this opportunity.

[Arrian]

Do we really want Arashi building walls? I'd rather have units.

edit: damn, so now we have to block 2 mountain tiles instead of 1.

Well, I definitely want our galleys to go up the east coast and, if possible, sink their galley.

-Arrian

[FrustratedPoet]

If that stack 22 of Dissidentville moves 1 next turn, and we don't destroy them, what's to stop them from taking Monsoon on the next turn?

I guess people have already discussed this, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

[Harovan]

FP: Nothing, sadly. But Monsoon is not a key city. We lose it, so be it. Let's face the fact, that Vox caught us with our pants down. We should have built an appropriate military long ago.

Arrian: Is the Lighthouse 300 or 400 shields? I don't remember, almost never build it.

The Lighthouse has the benefit, that it makes a one-turn galley/caravel shuttle to Bob possible. After Vox RP is due, so it will be useful. More than the GLib, which is of limited worth given the speed of tech whoring and our own considerable research power.

[Arrian]

Clearly we would have to hit it with every War Chariot we can muster (hence my wish for a WC out of Arashi, not walls) if we want to keep Monsoon.

Actually, it would be worse if their stack moved "4" instead of "1."

If it moved "1" we could hit it with swords/med inf by moving "7, 1" from Arashi and our slowmovers would stay on the tile "7" from Arashi after winning their battles so as not to be exposed to Vox's second stack. Then WCs can hit and their extra movement would allow them to get out of the way too.

-Arrian